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Originally Posted by enkeivette
Sooo... I redid all of the welds on my trailer. Didn't want any more crossmembers to fall off on the freeway. Haha.
And I figured since it is 3/16 to a 1/4 thick, I should turn the speed down and crank the voltage up.
So, all the way down at one, it feels like I'm getting really good penetration and melting the metal down deep, but, it's impossible to law a nice bead down. It's mainly spatter and melting the parent material.
5 is about as slow as I can go while still getting a nice bead. But still at 5 there is a ton of spatter.
At 7, there is low spatter, a nice bead and I can move at a decent pace. But I'm worried I'm not penetrating deep enough with the molten metal at that speed. Am I?
Am I just moving too fast at the slower speeds? What's up?
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Get some scrap metal that is the thickness that you want to weld. Then turn the heat up and wire speed up to the recommended for your machine. Then start running weld on the metal while adjusting the wire speed until it sounds like sizzling bacon. That's what I did on mine and it turned out that I had to drop the wire speed a little from what the recommended speed was.